Rowley @Rowley@qoto.org

In 1950, the annual harvest of seaweed in Orkney and Shetland increased by 400%. Why?

ORCADIAN CHERRIES or CHELLIES were synthetic cocktail cherries made from seaweed and were produced from 1949 onwards. Most went to cocktail bars in the USA.

#OldWeirdScotland

If we are heading toward an ecological collapse sooner than predicted, when are people gonna just rise up and tear down the companies killing us and polluting the earth for short-term profits? Isn't the time now?

Like, we're in for a world of hurt.

Parable of the Sower is becoming our reality and as much as I adore Octavia Butler, this is not the future I wanted.

I wanted a solarpunk future of mutual aid and library economy. Not fucking billionaires killing us all as they fight one another in cage fights for fun. Ugh.

#ClimateChange #RiseUp #AntiCapitalist

Pro tip: if your partner asks what you’d like for your birthday and you say “I’d like a multi-coupler”, be sure to clarify very quickly it’s a radio antenna thing versus any sort of adult situation

The only good capitalism is no capitalism at all.

@mick @vmatinnia @YaRo @cian @breadandcircuses @jackofalltrades

On point.

The cure for petrol-fueled, car-centric development isn’t EVs. It’s to pivot to non-car-centric alternatives. This needs to be shouted from every rooftop, and demanded of every politician.

Cars are the most expensive and wasteful option.

Ever since I started actually reading all the studies right wingers and other fucking imbeciles cough up when pressed (or just voluntarily because they underestimate my willingness to read) I'm just becoming more and more radicalized leftwards
To date, none of these fucking things have held water, and in fact many of them prove *my point* because these motherfuckers don't even bother double checking their source supports what they're saying (they found it on google after I asked for it)

Remember how jaywalking was invented by car companies to avoid having to address their safety problems? Public space was taken away from pedestrians and reserved for corporate interests by the law. There's already talk of how laws that protect pedestrians are inconvenient for self-driving cars.

Recently, gig companies like Uber and Lyft spent tens of millions of dollars to push through laws that allow them to better exploit workers.

What new laws are self-driving car companies going to introduce? What do you take for granted today that will be criminalized tomorrow?

David Tennant wearing a "leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" t-shirt to the Good Omens 2 premiere. Love this show. Love these guys

*Season 2 coming to Prime July 28th 😇👿🖤🤍

Threads being built to maximize brands and advertisers first, and not even attempting to be optimal for most users, is a real shortening of the enshittification cycle. It skips the first stage entirely.

David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"

I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!

Cognitive dissonance is two headlines days apart:

Today was the warmest day on earth in 125,000 years.

Today was the day with the most planes in the air at one time ever in history.

🌡️ LE JOUR LE PLUS CHAUD, LE RECORD DE VOLS D'AVIONS COMMERCIAUX

➡️ Le jeudi 6 juillet est officiellement le jour le plus chaud jamais enregistré sur Terre depuis le début des relevés, avec une température mondiale atteignant 17,23°C. Ce record dépasse la précédente mesure la plus chaude jamais effectuée… mardi 4 juillet, avec 17,18°C.

➡️ Le précédent record était mesuré… la veille, avec 17,01°C ! Trois records en une semaine : c'est la première fois que la température...

https://contre-attaque.net/2023/07/09/le-jour-le-plus-chaud-le-record-de-vols-davions-commerciaux/

It is really unfair that roosters are the only ones allowed to start the day by screaming.

I saw someone argue that shitposters can't succeed on Mastodon because their posts won't go viral due to the lack of an algorithm.

As a counterpoint to their belief I would like to introduce exhibit A, whatever the hell this account is.

From the Onion... Of course.